Salon.com > nick kasa http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Wade Davis on NFL’s gay witch hunt: “These athletes are very vulnerable” http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/wade_davis_on_nfls_gay_witch_hunt_these_athletes_are_very_vulnerable/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/wade_davis_on_nfls_gay_witch_hunt_these_athletes_are_very_vulnerable/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:04:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13216274 Wade Davis, the former Tennessee Titan who came out of the closet last year, wasn't surprised by an NFL recruit saying he'd been asked if he was straight.

After a football game in college, a pro scout asked Davis' coach, "Is Wade a ladies' man?"

"There's a certain cachet in being someone who seemed to be able to get girls," Davis told Salon. "My coach said, 'No, Wade isn't a ladies' man.' I immediately wondered if he'd seen through the mask I'd put up."

More likely, Davis said, the question, prohibited by law, wasn't based on any knowledge of the player's inner life: it was posed to all players, he said, in one way or another, long before this year's Manti Te'o scandal raised eyebrows about the Notre Dame star's fake girlfriend. (Te'o was reportedly asked by teams if he was gay, as well.) "They really do an exhaustive job learning everything they can," Davis said.

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